Glory MagicOS 7.0 Review: A smarter, smoother, and more usable new system

Glory MagicOS 7.0 Review: A smarter, smoother, and more usable new system

The growth of New Glory in the past two years is visible to the naked eye, especially in the product experience, it always brings the highlights of the same price models, such as the appearance design and Vlog shooting mode of Glory 50 series, AI Vlog video master of Glory 80 series, thin and long endurance of folding flagship Magic Vs, OS Turbo on MagicBook 14 and so on. Behind these innovative experiences is architecture design, hardware iteration, and relatively implicit system design and software capabilities. As Zhao Ming, CEO of Honor, said, "The hardware determines the lower limit of the performance and experience of a product, and only the system design capability and the software experience determine the upper limit of the consumer experience."At a time of chips, screens, and lens modules, software capabilities have become the key to creating differentiated experiences.

Recently, Honor launched MagicOS 7.0, and once announced four core technologies, MagicRing Trust Ring, Magic Live Intelligent engine, Turbo X system engine and MagicGuard Honor Security.

A mirror to the end of the UX design

When it comes to the system, the most intuitive and direct feeling for users is the beauty and ease of use of the UI interface, as well as the improvement of the fluency of the animation.

This Magic OS 7.0 builds a set of graphical interface based on the concept of Flow Design, optimizes the UX layout and dynamic effect presentation, and introduces a lot of perceptual elements, bringing a smart feeling like Flow on the whole.

In the dynamic design section, Magic OS 7.0 provides texture feedback based on the "elastic curve". When sliding, the system motion effect can simulate the real elastic reaction, and let the picture motion effect follow it along with the sliding of the fingertips. For example, when the mobile phone is unlocked into the desktop, you can see the desktop elements enter in turn. The ICONS and key information will naturally simulate the dynamic movement of the object floating after contacting the water surface, and slowly guide the user to visually focus on the desktop content.

The Honor UX design team believes that the fluency of the interface switch lies not in the speed of the transition effect, but in the natural flow of the user's visual focus. Therefore, Magic OS 7.0 in the transfer movement effect, brings the "one mirror to the end" transition effect, reduces the user's eye movement distance, and reduces the sense of interruption brought by the picture jump. The seamless connection between the visual focus flow makes it easier for people to get an immersive and comfortable flow experience.

In addition, there is a deep improvement that Glory has finally made efforts on the system font and created the HONOR Sans "dynamic font" developed by Glory. It not only makes the strokes and intervals look more neat, but also makes the infinite more flexible self-weight adjustment, which is also to catch up with the first echelon of the current mobile phone system in terms of font.

Of course, the key point of the honor MagicOS 7.0 upgrade is not actually on the surface upgrade of the UX level that I mentioned above, but its more important upgrade point is actually in the four aspects of intelligent interconnection, intelligent service, smooth performance and privacy security.

Seamless and insensitive multi-terminal fusion

Smart Connectivity is actually a functional module that Honor has been trying to develop before. Earlier, Honor phones, tablets and laptops have achieved smooth enough useful connectivity and collaboration. In MagicOS 7.0, these features are better integrated under the Smart Connectivity module, which includes application connection, call sharing, notification sharing, and key and mouse sharing.

Among these four features, app connection, call sharing and notification sharing are already "old things" on Apple devices, but Glory has achieved a smooth flow on different systems and improved the details accordingly. For example, when a phone calls, the iPhone, tablet, PC will ring together, like a symphony. Honor call sharing, only in the phone and the user is using the terminal device ring, relatively more intelligent.

In terms of application connection, Youku, WPS and other software can realize intelligent circulation on the smart devices equipped with MagicOS 7.0, greatly eliminating the sense of separation between devices. For example, with WPS editing on the phone, back to the computer or tablet, the next icon will automatically emerge, and click to seamlessly edit. On the way home from work, watch the variety show in the video app with your mobile phone, and then go back at home, and the big screen continues with one click.

In addition, the key mouse share the function of the details is worthy of praise, compared to other vendors can only on the tablet and PC key mouse communication, the glory of the MagicOS can even support the mouse and mobile phone connection, which means that if we are in the office when you need to check the information on the phone, can directly use the mouse operation, without switch between mouse operation and touch operation.

Behind the seamless flow, in fact, thanks to the MagicRing trust ring, one of the underlying technologies of Honor. Simply put, different Honor devices logged in to the same account can automatically discover, identify, and establish connections, and the connected devices can share hardware and software capabilities. This not only saves the "continuous", "touch" and other operation steps, but also makes the different devices connected into one, like a device.

Smart service allows one key to direct

If "smart connectivity" is reflected in multiple devices, then "smart service" is to make a single device experience further. In smart services, Glory this time brings very useful Magic text and YOYO suggestions. The Magic text is also the integration of a series of functions, including document scanning, intelligent circulation and text recognition functions. When we want to extract the text from screenshots or photos, it helps us to quickly convert it to text, which is still very useful. And support telephone, address, express order number and other information one key direct, such as a restaurant address recorded in the photo, we can directly conduct map navigation after extraction.

Even with a designed font, it can accurately identify it

YOYO suggested that this is a core highlight of the system update. In a simple point of view, Glory has put an AI brain into the system, which can sense the needs of users in different scenarios, and push the software services needed by users to the desktop card in advance, so that users can use it on the screen, eliminating the steps of searching and clicking in a variety of applications. In fact, we praised YOYO for recommending this function in the glory Magic4 Pro review before. Coming to MagicOS 7.0, this function has become more powerful, which not only enriches more scenarios, but also recommends a variety of service combinations based on the complexity of the scene.

Commuting function, for example, when I took carrying MagicOS 7.0 system phone to daily commute near the subway station, mobile phone desktop will automatically push bus health code and bus code two CARDS, directly after entering the desktop card can direct health code, and through the suspension capsule can quickly switch to bus code, save in different APP find switch between N more steps.

Finally, there's the lower level of smooth performance and privacy security. As the intelligent brain Magic Live superposition Turbo X system engine that runs through the whole operating system, it can bring further optimization of the system resource allocation mechanism for users. Simply put, it can retrieve the chip, memory, communication and other capabilities according to the user's usage scenarios and habits.

For example, Turbo X can predict the environmental network, and if the user is about to enter the weak network area, it can alert a third-party app to preload, and the user can enter faster when they open the app. In terms of application fault diagnosis and solution, Honor has now joined forces with Kuaishou, and the two sides have reduced the withdrawal proportion of applications in typical scenarios by 30%.

In terms of privacy security, MagicOS 7.0 uses the "chip, OS, application" three layers of privacy security system to build MagicGuard honor security. Based on the first dual TEE security system and two locks and one core strongest security base hardware level encryption can replace the physical bank U shield, and realize the first online transfer of up to 5 million personal cash. In addition, the AI privacy learning computing engine, which uses differential privacy technology, to randomly add noise to the data to ensure complete desensitization.

In fact, there are many privacy-related functions in the system, but they are not integrated into the privacy module

In general, Glory MagicOS 7.0 has significantly improved the glory mobile phone. The improvement of UX design makes it greatly upgrade in visual fluency; the excellent underlying update, which makes it better in performance, can better protect our privacy security; the further enrichment of intelligent function also brings a more worrying use experience, while the interconnection function can solve the problem of difficult equipment management and poor coordination.

With such MagicOS 7.0, I am full of confidence in the future of Honor mobile phone and even other smart products. I also hope that Honor can make persistent efforts to achieve more powerful upgrades in both hardware and software.